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Commercial vehicles delivering consumer goods must observe the applicable weight requirements and seek permits for oversize loads. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, significant changes accelerated in e-commerce, adding pressure for the freight community to deliver goods directly to consumers in an environment of uncertainty where consumers were buying in bulk, exhausting supplies of common and necessary goods. On top of consumer disruptions to the freight system, truckers urgently had to make deliveries of much-needed, pandemic-related supplies.
NCHRP Research Report 1115: Transporting Freight in Emergencies: A Guide on Special Permits and Weight Requirements, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, provides a guide to state departments of transportation to consider options to better anticipate and respond to state and federal emergencies, specifically related to the movement of overweight commercial vehicles carrying emergency commodities within a state or across a region.
Supplemental to the report are the following:
- NCHRP WOD 397: Developing a Guide for Transporting Freight in Emergencies: Conduct of Research
- Implementation Plan
- Research Presentation
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